All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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